The Minister of Mines, Petroleum and Energy, Thomas Camara announced, Friday 02 July 2021, in Abidjan, the end of the rationing of electricity since 25 June 2021 for households and industrialists will take place on July 15.

“Since June 25, 2021, the rationing of the supply of electricity to households has ended. Households are now continuously supplied with electricity, subject to certain tools and minor problems. At the industrial level, from July 15, 2021, rationing will end. They will be regularly supplied with electricity ”, promised Mr. Camara at the end of a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Patrick Achi, with industrialists on the high cost of living.

The Prime Minister reassured certain industrialists who are in a logic of importing generators to supply their factories that the Ivorian electricity network has a great power capable of meeting all the needs.

The electricity rationalization program put in place on May 10, 2021 has impacted the price of several products in Côte d’Ivoire, in particular cement and meat.

The three main principles established for the operation of this program remain the two rationing time slots lasting six hours, the alternating slots each week, and the exclusion of Sunday from the rationing program.

Over the period 2011-2020, the financing mobilized in the energy sector in Côte d’Ivoire is estimated at approximately 3.039 billion FCFA, including 1.594 billion FCFA of projects carried out and 1.445 billion FCFA of projects in progress in the segments of production, transport , distribution, rural electrification and remote control.

Over the period 2021-2030, the total amount of investments is estimated at 4.465 billion FCFA including 2.582 billion projects under examination and 1.883 billion FCFA to be financed for all planned investments.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne de presse